Media Credit: Gabriella Demczuk | Senior Staff Photographer
Addy Adegbite, a brother of Pi Kappa Phi, donned an elaborate outfit for the drag show Wednesday co-hosted by Allied in Pride. Twenty Greek chapters teamed up with GW’s largest LGBT organization to host the show, which is intended to promote inclusivity of LGBT students in Greek life.
this is like blackface
Blackface is to black people what this is to women. He’s not imitating a gay person, he’s imitating a woman. As a woman, I find it funny.
While drag is only a small part of LGBT culture, the point is to show that fraternity men- often a hyper-masculine culture that epitomizes sexism and homophobia- at GW are not ashamed or afraid to defy that culture that is so frequently exhibited by frat boys. It takes courage as a man to openly dress as a woman, especially in front of so many people. I applaud the men who stepped out of their comfort zones and did it to show support for ANYONE who is not heteronormative, not just gays.